Plug connector

Abstract

A plug connector includes an electrically insulating body including a housing and a pair of arms; a plurality of pairs of first and second right-angled signal contact elements supported by the housing such that the first right-angled signal contact element is arranged above the second right-angled signal contact element, each of the right-angled signal contact elements having a substantially right-angled contact portion protruding backward from the housing and a leading portion inserted into the housing, the contact portion having a horizontal part and a vertical part; a plurality of ground contact elements supported by the housing and disposed alternately with the plurality of pairs of first and second right-angled plug signal contacts, each of the ground contact elements provided with two ground terminals; and upper and lower electrically insulating brackets assembled to the housing. The upper bracket covering the horizontal parts of the plurality of first signal contact elements, the lower bracket covering the horizontal parts of the plurality of second signal contact elements, and the lower bracket being provided with holes into which the vertical parts of the first and second signal contact elements and the ground terminals are inserted.

What is claimed is:  
     
       1. A plug connector for balanced transmission, comprising: 
       an electrically insulating body including a housing with a lower bracket;  
       a plurality of ground contact elements supported by said housing and arranged in an array, each of said ground contact elements having a plate-like extension portion and two ground terminals extending vertically from said plate-like extension portion; and  
       a plurality of pairs of pin-shaped first and second angled signal contact elements disposed such that there is a substantially equal separation between said first angled-signal contact element and said second angled-signal contact element over a major portion of a length of said first and second angled-signal contact elements being supported by a protruded insulation part provided in said substantially equal separation and arranged alternately with said ground contact elements in said array, said first and second angled signal contact elements being arranged at positions opposing said plate-like extension portion, and with said second angled signal contact elements having horizontal portions covered by said lower bracket,  
       wherein vertical portions of said first and second angled signal contact elements and said ground contact elements are inserted into said lower bracket and protrude from said lower bracket.  
     
     
       2. The plug connector as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the first and second angled signal contacts are impedance matched. 
     
     
       3. The plug connector as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said electrically insulating body further includes an upper bracket, the first angled signal contact elements having horizontal portions covered by the upper bracket. 
     
     
       4. The plug connector as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to said plate-like extension portion, said vertical portions of said first and second angled-signal contact elements are placed between said ground contact elements. 
     
     
       5. The plug connector as claimed in  claim 1 , further comprising an upper shielding member and a lower shielding member that covers said electrically insulating body.